How to install cacti on centos 6

Cacti – Network and performance monitoring tool

Cacti is one of best monitoring tool used to monitor network, CPU load, memory, Disk and other services. Cacti uses PHP for front end, RRDTool for graphing and mysql for storage. Cacti installation on centos requires LAMP setup and SNMP.

Disable Selinux » open the file /etc/selinux/config and find the lineSELINUX=enforcing

and replace withSELINUX=disabled now reboot the server and try again. After getting installation page, proceed with the default values and make sure all the binary paths are found as per the below image. upon completion, you can see the login prompt .Step 18» The default username and password for cacti is admin/admin. you will be forced to change the password at first login.Step 19» After login . Choose – > Devices – > Localhost and find “SNMP Options“. select SNMP Version -> “Version 2” and SNMP Community -> public and click the “save” button at the bottom.Step 20» Now you can see the SNMP information at the TOP . Click “Create Graphs for this Host” and choose Graph Types:-> ALL and choose all the check boxes as below and press “create“. Now choose the colour option ( Leave as it is ) and press “create“. After few minutes , you can see the initial stage of graphs for localhost in the Graphs section . after few hours you can see the graphs like below .